Eliane Geurts

After completing her degree in Communication, Eliane allowed herself one more year to study what she truly wanted to do. Four years later, she graduated as a visual artist from the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht.

Cycling and walking through the surrounding landscape, she explores the lines of border areas. The rhythm of being on the move, the emptiness that accompanies it, and the sense of space it creates play a crucial role in her work.

Her works are constructed from various materials, starting with the surface itself. Using mostly found materials, she builds a foundation in which these borderlands return as fragments, lines, and repetitions. Just as in open space, her work resists a framed canvas, instead, each piece becomes a building block within a larger whole.

In her practice, painting, drawing, writing, and photography merge. She experiments intuitively with materials and layers, attentive to calm and spatiality. Oil and acrylic, which naturally repel each other, are sometimes layered on top of one another, creating a tension for dominance. This confrontation opens up space for coincidence, resistance, and struggle, inviting the viewer to continuously question what they are seeing. Is it a landscape, or perhaps an archaeological excavation? The process of making remains visible and tangible throughout her work.

For Eliane, creation does not end with the artwork itself, but extends into the space and exhibition surrounding it.